Bottom line is Ohio wouldn't be in play for Obama if any other candidate had been the nominee besides Romney. They are using the same Bain Capital ads that Kennedy used in his Senate race against Romney to savage him with white, working-class males. Tons of personal stories of plants being closed, people being laid off, going broke, etc. No other potential nominee had that unique vulnerability. Some of us tried to warn everybody about that in the primary, but not enough listened. Because Ohio is in play, it's turned the whole race into a toss-up. If we lose the election, it's solely the primary voters' fault for not doing their homework on who was most "electable."
That is just silly.
Romney was far from my choice for nominee, but the Dems would have ravaged any candidate we would have run. Some would have been trashed far more viciously.
Romney has held up as well as could be expected.
Give me a break. I was a Cain guy, but he would’ve been pillaged as a ‘me too’ token candidate. All of them had negatives. The fact that it’s this close and given how well Romney did in the debates, I take it over what could have been.